Infinitesimals In Calculus Quotes & Sayings

But here, Ms. Pelletier, is the thing. Without infinitesimals, the calculus as we know and love it simply wouldn't exist. It is these nearly-zero, sort-of-zero, sometimes-zero quantities that allow us to understand the world. Something which seems to be nearly nothing turns out to be crucial to everything. So though I, or for you that matter, or any of us, may be, as a collection of atoms, practically indistinguishable from zero, this does not necessarily mean we are insignificant. Indeed, it may be that we are actually crucially important. — Brendan Halpin

In hawthorn-time the heart grows light. — Algernon Charles Swinburne

I will not nullify, I will not secede, but I will under sovereign State authority fight in the Union another revolutionary conflict for civil liberty, and a Union which will defend it. — Henry A. Wise

Step 1, you find a girl to love. Step 2, she falls in love with you. Step 3, you kiss and hold her tightly. — Eddie Cochran

I've seen fathers criticizing their sons the moment a game's over. Not my dad. It doesn't matter if I threw an interception or a Hail Mary, he always says, 'Good job, son, I'm proud of you.' Then he shakes my hand and gives me a hug. Every time. — Ben Roethlisberger

Sometimes, and those times are many, wisdom demands that we remain silent. This is such a time. — PLO Lumumba

I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night. — Olivia Wilde

Those screams had been growing steadily louder, as the torture masters of Eld worked their way down the line of new prisoners. A few chimes ago, however, the screams had fallen mysteriously silent.
"Do you think the torture masters have tired themselves out?" Gaelen pondered with black humor.
"More likely, we're next, and they've just gone to sharpen their blades," Tajik said.
Locked up in the room with them, Farel gave a grunting laugh of amusement. "Could be. They've been using them enough."
"You know," Gil announced, "as rescues go, I have to say this one pretty much scorches rultshart turds. — C.L. Wilson

In 2004, the iPod was a novelty, and tablet computers were a dream. Now we take for granted that we can see whatever we want whenever and wherever we want to see it, be it 'Grand Illusion' or 'Duck Dynasty.' — Terry Teachout

Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two. — Dorothea Brande

Sometimes if you don't physically attempt something, you don't realize how sick to your stomach or how hard it is. — Laila Ali

Remained with no very cordial feelings toward him. — Jane Austen

There's a certain group of people who are always going to dislike me and disagree with whatever I say. — Marilyn Manson

After a long time when the sun finally comes out of the clouds, the Earth salutes it by striking its best pose! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

There is nothing so capital as a cup of tea for settling the Disheveled Nerves of Fair Ladies. — Joan Bassington-French

Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc ... But the next quite logical step after the reals, namely the introduction of infinitesimals, has simply been omitted. I think, in coming centuries it will be considered a great oddity in the history of mathematics that the first exact theory of infinitesimals was developed 300 years after the invention of the differential calculus. — Abraham Robinson